That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.

Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; But a greater thing is to fight life through, and at the end, 'The dream is true!'

The future life is where we will go on helping to bring the universe to perfection, which is God's grand ultimate aim. [The purpose of life] is to help God run the universe. Everyone in that better land will be busy all the time, and the environment will be perfect all the time for doing the work which God assigns to all.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.